Patio Decorating Ideas For You

Patio Decorating Ideas For You

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STRING LIGHTS/ SWING LOUNGE CHAIR/ HANGING PLANT/ BARREL FOUNTAIN/ COCA-COLA COOLER/ PLANT HOLDERS/ FIRE PIT/ HAMMOCK/ OUTDOOR RUG/ PATIO DINING SET

 

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SUCCULENT PLANT/ PLANT IN POT/ GRILL/ THROW PILLOW/ FOUNTAIN/ OUTDOOR RUG/ LAMP/ OUTDOOR EGG CHAIR/ PATIO SET/ DINING SET

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FLOWER ON POT/ HANGING PLANT/ STRING LIGHTS/ COOLER/ MASON JAR LIGHTS/ FIRE PIT/ ACCENT TABLE/ TRASH CAN/ PATIO SET/ HOT TUB

Hello All! I know I have not been consistently here on the blog. If you have been following me, you know I am a healthcare worker and that being said. We are all battling this covid and that made me so busy at work taking all the precuations I can take wearing full PPE so I won’t take home the virus. So when I am at home, I have been really tired and the rest of my energy I use to be with the family.

I actually have extra time for this few days that I would like to use to make blog post and this is what I came up with. I have been browsing a lot of items for patio because Novel and I wanted to work on it. We already added some new items at home like this sideboard for the dining room. And this all surface vacuum.

We were thinking of making a pergola and add some string lights. I have been browsing on these three stores and still looking for some ideas. We are still throwing some ideas back and forth and still couldn’t make up our minds. But in case you are looking for some inspirations do check out all this post here.

Also do not miss out on the $400 egg chair sale from Target. It usually is $5oo so that is a steal, it is a good addition if you have a pretty good space in your backyard. I already have an egg chair inside the house that I got from Walmart.

In case you missed my previous post on Home and organization, I have put up some good storage and container items here. Now is the time to put your organization skills and do all things that most of us did not have time to do when we were busy working. Stay tuned for some post regarding other skills that I have acquired during this stay at home orders we have like baking? lol!

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Life Lately Update this Spring Time

Life Lately Update this Spring Time

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AMUR TOP/ SUNGLASSES/ TORY BURCH HANDBAG/ LEVIS JEANS/ TARGET SANDALS

Omg! It is already April 1st, where did March go? Anyways, just checking in on everyone. How is everyone holding on in the situation? As for me, I am still working as I am considered an essential employee as a physical therapist. I am actually scared that I will encounter patients that have the corona virus. I am actually praying for all of us healthcare worker to have the proper PPE to use for us to be able to provide care and safety for everybody around us.

Another thing, the kids are at home because their school is cancelled until April 24th here in Maryland, my husband’s work has been affected by this so he is at home with the kids doing all the home schooling for them while I am at work. When I get home, I make sure I sanitize everything that I wore and touch and go straight to the shower before I touch my precious family. You know, we don’t know where our enemy is the virus. On a good note, we have more bonding time as a family, we actually have a lot of time spending it in the backyard when the weather permits and bike ride in the neighborhood. Also a lot of movie nights and game nights as well. We are also enjoying doing Tiktok and a lot of jamming time as we as a family love music. We actually started doing Friday night live on my personal Facebook and our family and friends are enjoying it. Since my blog is more of fashion and lifestyle, not sure is you all will appreciate it if we do a live on my Instagram.

So as for this pretty outfit here, yes I was able to break this in here in the neighborhood next to my neighbor’s tree here. Since not too many people outside here, I was able to enjoy this shoot with the hubs carefree as you can see here in the picture. This top is true to size and perfect for a high waist jeans like the one I am wearing right now. These Levi’s jeans are so comfy and so obsessed with the cute hem. And still in love with all things Tory Burch bags….

How about you? I wanna hear how everybody is doing. I really pray that is will end soon, I feel so sad that all of us is being affected by this pandemic directly and indirectly if you know what I mean. Cheers! Hoping that we can get to enjoy this years Summer, wishful thinking! Check out the other budget friendly Spring blouses I posted here.

 

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How I Stay Positive Through all this Pandemic

How I Stay Positive Through all this Pandemic

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WHITE TOP/ LEVI’S JEANS/ TORY BURCH BAG/ BOOHOO SANDALS

I just wanna share all my thoughts about the current situation. I know a lot of us is scared and stressed. I may not look like it in my pictures but trust me I feel what everybody is feeling right now. I am scared because I am one of the front liners, scared that I might be exposed and to take it home with me… So I always pray… but this time I pray more…. I make sure I practice good hygiene all the time as in double of what I am already doing. Taking vitamins and exercising regularly to increase immune system.

Stressed because my husband’s work is one that is affected by the current situation and of course we are thinking about it all the time. Right now, at least I know the Government is doing its best to help people who are affected by this. Thankful that I have a job…

I am the type of person who see the glass half full than half empty. I always look into good things than the bad side of things. This is how I stay positive with all the negativity around the world, I think I got this attitude from my dad. If you know me personally, I bet you are one of them who always ask me why I don’t get angry a lot. Why am I always positive…

Here are the positive things this virus has brought us.. Since a lot of us are quarantined. We all learn….

  1. How to be creative at home and share all our precious time with out loved ones.
  2. Streets have less cars decreasing pollution in the air.
  3. A lot of us scared and now just started taking care of ourselves more than ever.
  4. You have showed us who are those people with loving and caring heart amidst this situation.

This too shall pass.. I know it is hard but we can all do this. To keep y’all sane at home try this game night I posted here. Stay safe and healthy everyone!

Simply,

Christianne

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Fitness Journey after Third Baby

Fitness Journey after Third Baby

Fitness Journey after Third Baby, sharing how I am keeping up to be the healthier version of me and how I was able to do it.

I just wanna let you all know I will not be able to do this without the support of my husband. He always pushes me and motivates me. Even before we got married. I told him that if I become unhealthy and if I will go out of the healthy BMI (body mass index) it means he doesn’t care about me anymore because he is not noticing it.

So right after pregnancy, I waited to get a clearance from my doctor when I can start working out again. Before then, while o=still on maternity leave. My in laws, me and my husband worked on improving our home gym. As you can see on the picture below and also to get you updated in case you missed the first part of my fitness journey here.

Let me start of with my diet. I do not particularly follow a certain diet. I do have the body boss cookbook and just got the recipes that I really liked. I used to follow this before I got pregnant. I do meal prep, my favorite is just baking mixed vegetables like, asparagus, mixed bell peppers, Brussel sprouts, yellow squash, mushroom. I drizzle olive oil, Parmesian cheese and chili powder and salt and pepper. This usually becomes my lunch for the work week and ceasar salad for dinner or protein shake after workout, the oat meal and eggs for breakfast. I cut down on sweets, this is hard because it is my weakness.

My workout routine is I follow the bodyboss method. I have been really trying to incorporate this every week. My husband and I give ourselves at least 40 mins a day 4-5x a week for this. I have not returned to my pre-pregnancy weight but I feel so much better now and has more energy.

It is just a matter of giving time to work on yourself a day and also eating healthy. We are also trying to be a good example to our children as a healthcare professional. I have been seeing a lot of young people being sick, their condition is worst that most of the elderly patients that I always work with. It is about lifestyle.

I hope I was able to inspire you guys specially the mamas out there.

Thank you for stopping by.

Simply,

Christianne

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Valentine’s Day Gifts for Her

Valentine's Day Gifts for Her

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SUNGLASSES/ BRACELET/ PERFUME/ CANDLE/ BLOUSE/ EARRINGS

Finally I was able to make a blog post. Since we are two weeks away from Valentine’s day I made sure I have this gift guides for all of you. The past week was really tiring and busy week for us, we were in a rush to prepare for Andi’s baptism the past weekend and it was a week preparation. I will make a separate post for that and tell you all why it was like that.

Now back to the gift guide, here I chose a few that will definitely a hit for all the ladies out there in your life. Have you all though why always the ladies gets all the gifts and attention. We also have men in our lives that supports us and gifts us love and attention and for that I will also make a separate post for it. Working on it for my next weeks post so stay tuned.

These items here are all my favorite and also like for myself so calling hubby if you are reading this…. this is the hint for you. LOL!

Hopefully I can get back on track again to give you guys fresh content this coming February. Thank you all so much for supporting my blog and see you again on the next post.

In case you want more gift guide, that ones I made for past Holiday is still good here . I hope you were able to find this post helpful. May all of you have a wonderful weekend!

Simply,

Christianne

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Family Game Night Ideas with Kids

Family Game Night Ideas with Kids

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ON ADI: MERMAID ONESIES

ON AIDAN: BATMAN ONESIES

ON ANDI: BABY ONESIES

ON ME: PLUSH PAJAMA SET SIMILAR HERE

HOME STUFF:

ELECTRIC LOG HEATER, SHERPA BLANKET, LIVING ROOM RUG

We as a family love the outdoors, we always go to the park, we bike roller skates and roller blades and things like that. So when Winter time comes and we wanna have fun. Game night is a good idea for us with small kids.

A hit for us is the JENGA classic, this one is a heart stopper and is truly a fun game to play. second is the UNO cards. The others are the SORRY and and CONNECT 4.

It was also a good idea to do it by the fireplace if you have one. I just wanna say if you do not wanna deal with getting real logs, we bought this Electric heater log that looks like a real logs on fire and it also serves as a heater at the same time.

The sherpa blanket we were sitting on was also the comfiest idea ever during this season. It gives us comfort and warmth and can always snuggle with it afterwards. Don’t forget also that movie night is a hit just like what I posted here last Christmas.

I hope I was able to give some game ideas to play specially for moms who have little ones like me. These games will surely be a hit for them.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

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Top 8 Activewear to keep you Inspired

Top 8 Activewear to keep you Inspired
Top 8 Activewear to keep you Inspired

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AMAZON ESSENTIALS TOP/ AMAZON ESSENTIALS BOTTOM/ ADIDAS SHOES / UNDER ARMOUR SQUEEZE BOTTLE/ AMAZON ESSENTIAL LIGHT WEIGHT JACKET/ AMAZON SUNGLASSES

This 2020 one of my goal is to be back in shape and stay healthy. I know I am not the only one here. Even before I got pregnant with Andi I was able to establish a healthy lifestyle and I felt more energetic. I want be like that again and I can say that after the Holiday. I am very much sticking to it now, no more back to back parties.

That being said, one of my motivation is wearing nice workout clothes. And if you are too, this post is for you! Even though I am working out in our home gym, I feel like wearing the comfiest and stylish active wear makes me feel that I am serious about what I am aiming for. Which is to be the better version of me. That is why I have come up with all the active wear brands that I have tried and I want to try next…

Check out my top 8 here…

OLD NAVY

ATHLETA

GAP FACTORY

NIKE

PUMA

LULULEMON

UNDER ARMOUR

OUTDOOR VOICES

I love getting workout wear from Old Navy and Gap Factory because of the price points and the ones I put here are pretty much on sale. My top 3 are Nike, Adidas and Puma as they are really good quality products. I have just started using lululemon and they are good quality too. I have yet to give Athleta and Outdoor voices a try and once I do I will let y’all know.

In case you have not seen my other activewear post or athleisure that are similar to this post. check them out here and here.

Thank you once again for stopping by and have a wonderful week ahead.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

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Things I am investing for myself this New Year

Things I am investing for myself this New Year

Things I am investing for myself this New Year. These items are the things that will make me a better version of myself and yours too.

WORKOUT CLOTHES

Just like this one that I posted here. I already started working on myself 6 weeks after having Andi but due to the holiday, I was inconsistent. This is actually my ultimate goal after pregnancy and always every new year. I always say myself health is wealth. And when I am fit, I always feel I have a lot of energy and being a mom of 3. I ahve to have all the energy that I can get.

SHAPEWEAR

Having a good shape wear is needed specially after the Holidays. I know I did accumulate some bulges here and there. I can definitely use it because we are planning on having Andi baptized this month and I know I will be wearing a dress then. I just want to feel good and best.

SELF IMPROVEMENT BOOKS

I also always do this just to boost my self confidence. It is actually a good idea for me to read new books specially something like this to get me organize in some way. To work my goals for this year and be able to achieve it.

I believe on investing on all these items as they will help me get better and up my game. The reason why I am sharing this is because I believe they are effective and will definitely be a good thing to work on.

Thank you all so much for stopping by and see you next week, DMV, let’s enjoy the weather tomorrow it is gonna be Spring in January.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

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Welcoming New Year 2020

Welcoming New Year 2020

Happy New Year 2020! It was such a fun New Year’s Eve celebration at home. We haven’t welcomed the New Year at our house in the last 5 years. We have 10 family friends and we have a tradition of spending it at one of each houses so we do rotations every year. We also just started a tradition like 3 years ago of having one family sponsor every family a t-shirt for everybody and using the lucky color of the year and also putting our last names on it.

So now that I have shared how we welcome every New Year. I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself again in case you are new to my blog. Hi, my name is Christianne and I am a mom of 3. I’m originally from the Philippines and now living here in the US with my husband and our 3 lovely children with our dog mojo.

My goal this year is to be able to provide y’all an ever green content you can surely use in your everyday life be it for fashion (personal style) which I usually share the most, lifestyle, family and travel. I want to be a good resource person for all those topics I mentioned. Also, I am not usually sharing a lot of family pictures but recently since I became pregnant and have Andi now. The whole family became ok posting in pictures with me. I used to like beg them to have a decent photos that is why you rarely see them on my blog.

I also wanna inspire a lot of mamas out there. I always get this question how I can manage having a full time day job, this part time blog and be a mom of three. I think I have posted this topic before but will get into details in the next few episodes of my blog. Also check out my previous post on how I prepared for the NYE party.

Thank you all so much for your continued support to my blog. Once again, Happy New Year!

Simply,’

Christianne

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Simplychristianne 2019 Year in Review

This is my last blog post for this year. Doing reflections on how this year was for my blog and how I have been to y’all. I know I fell short this year since I became pregnant I know I slacked so much. I lost my consistency in posting on my blog and also the ever green content that I should have been sharing with all of you.

This year started not so good as I was still recovering from the lost of my dad back in November last year. Then a month after that I found out I was pregnant and had morning sickness and that really threw me off on my routine. I really lost myself this year and was just posting a lot of fluff here and there just to have something to post. I am just being with y’all. I did give something good for the pregnant ladies like me back then.

This 2020 I have a lot of goals for myself and my blog. I will do my best for y’all to be the best resource for all the good deals for fashion, lifestyle, motherhood and travel content I may have that I know will be beneficial for everyone.

Here are some of the Highlights I have this year… Not so much though It was pretty much about my pregnancy…. So thankful to have baby Andi. I was really thinking I was done when I had Aidan. I only wanted two if I have a boy and a girl already but hubby convinced me good and so thankful for that.

February was the month I announced here that I was pregnant here

Simplychristianne 2019 Year in Review

March was my gender reveal, found out we were having a girl….

April to August just pretty much sharing a lot of pregnancy updates and a lot of maternity outfit inspirations.

and then August I popped Andi out…

I will make sure this coming 2020 y’all will find a lot of ever green content from me. Thank y’all for sticking out with me. See you next year!

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

 

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